Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.publish.cdrom.software Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!hookup!news.moneng.mei.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!sci.kun.nl!paulvg From: paulvg@sci.kun.nl (Paul van Goor) Subject: Re: Testing ISO 9660 Message-ID: Sender: news@sci.kun.nl (News owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: studs.sci.kun.nl Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19 References: <2nhqo0$3m2@nwfocus.wa.com> Date: Sat, 2 Apr 1994 23:24:03 GMT Lines: 35 Xref: cdrom.com alt.cd-rom:2194 comp.publish.cdrom.software:343 In <2nhqo0$3m2@nwfocus.wa.com> jevo@halcyon.halcyon.com (Jann E VanOver) writes: >Hello all you NET wizards! >I am going to be required to test some CD-ROMs for ISO-9660 >compatibility. >Does anyone know if there are any software packages that will help me do >this? I'll need to look at all the values in the Primary Volume >Descriptor and don't really want to do a hex dump and count bytes >myself, if I can avoid it. >Freeware, Shareware, Commercial, Whatever, please let me know! >Jann "Grateful for the help" VanOver >jevo@halcyon.com Hi Jan, I'd use an utility that I got yeeaars back from Microsoft. At that point in time I was a beta-tester for Microsoft's MSCDEX and received a program called CDTEST together with one of the MSCDEX (pre-)releases. This utility allows you to inspect the ISO 9660 specific disc area's through a pull-down menu driven user interface. On the other hand you have to bear in mind that there is more to ISO 9660 than MS-DOS can cope with, so you *will* have to labourously inspect every byte of file structure in the end. The first step would be to get in touch with Microsoft. In the early MSCDEX days Dan Newell was my contact in these matters. Try your luck ... Greetings, Paul van Goor aka paulvg@sci.kun.nl